Europe & CIS

The company has appointed Maarten van Roon as Chief Commercial Officer.

Green cement company, Ecocem, has announced the completion of a €22.5 million equity investment by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) and Breakthrough Energy Ventures-Europe (BEV-E). BEV will also nominate a director to the company’s Board of Directors.

The company recently held its 132nd Annual General Meeting – for the second time in a row in virtual form. The Annual General Meeting approved all items on the agenda with a large majority and welcomed the return to the progressive dividend policy.

The company has shared its optimistic outlook for 2021, and expects continued strong demand in private residential construction and infrastructure in all regions.

The company’s HERACLES Group has signed an agreement with HALYPS Domia Ylika SA of HeidelbergCement to acquire the aggregates business and two ready-mix concrete plants in Athens, Greece.

LafargeHolcim shareholders have approved all of the Board of Directors’ proposals at the Annual General Meeting that took place in Zug.

A successful volunteering partnership between Tarmac and the Peak District National Park Authority is looking to the future by agreeing a five-year extension.

The company has announced that it has acquired the freehold of the property at Huntsmans Drive in Teesside, UK, and can now confirm the start of commissioning of its UK based Subcoal production line.

Dwight Savage has joined Schust as Project Manager. Savage will provide customers with an air pollution control project that is done safely and meets or exceeds the customer’s clean air goals and objectives.

In cooperation with leading key players, Sika is working on the development of concrete admixtures implementing the LC3 technology that lowers CO2 emissions, developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

The company will supply the Maulini group with its clinker-free low-carbon cement based on its H-UKR technology to enable it to undertake major construction work in Switzerland including the Chêne-Blanc project, a 6-villa real-estate set in Onex, just outside Geneva.

The UK’s concrete producers will be represented for the first time in one trade association to help accelerate the industry’s journey towards beyond net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The company will be supporting the planting of another 1800 trees in the Yorkshire Dales this year thanks to their ‘People and the Planet’ initiative.

The company has announced that it has filed its annual report for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2020 on Form 20-F with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The company has announced that net sales are up 7.4% and Recurring EBIT is up 131%, continuing the strong growth momentum of the last quarters.